Spring-clip for filing appliances.



E. B. MOSELEY. SEEING CLIP FOR FILING APPLIANCES.

APPLICATION FILED 00130, 1911.

1 ,070, 1 64, 4 Patented M512, 1913.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co WASHINGTON Swewboz UNITED srn'rns PATENT OFFICE.

EMERSON B. MOSELEY, 0F ALLIANCE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE MQCASKEY REGISTERCOMPANY, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

SPRING-CLIP FOR FILING APPLIANCES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 12,1913.

Original application filed June 20, 1911, Serial No. 834,258. -Dividedand. this application filed October 30,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMERSON B. MosELEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Alliance, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Spring-Clip for Filing Appliances, thesame being illustrated and described, but not claimed, in my applicationfor Letters Patent filed June 20, 1911, Serial No. (33%,268, of whichapplication this is a divisional part, and of which invention thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to an appliance specially adapted for filing billsof sales or accounts, as of a retail merchant, and more particularly tothat class of appliances containing a series of leaves normally locatedface to face, and being hinged or jointed to gether so that they can berotated apart to expose and, give access to the faces of the severalframes.

The object of the present invention is to provide wire-spring clipswhich can be conveniently connected to the frames, with their connectedends bent to form springs for holding the body of the clip at varyingintervals from the frame to receive and retain bunches of bills ofvarying thickness.

The present embodiment of the invention, thus set forth in generalterms, is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof,in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a filing appliance with a packof upright frames therein, showing the foremost frame rotated forward toa prone position; Fig. 2, a detached perspective view of the form ofwire-spring clip adapted to be secured to the sheet metal plate of theframe; and Fig. 3, a detached perspective view of the form ofwire-spring clip adapted to be secured to the rim of the frame.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawing.

The frames or leaves 1 are preferably made of metal sheets or plates,with the reinforcing end and side strips 2 and 2 secured on their faces,which strips serve to stiffen as well as to separate the frame plates,and also constitute a rim within which are formed the recesses 3 in thefaces of the frames for receiving the bunches of bills to be filed inthe appliance. The spring clips 4 Serial No. 657,588.

are secured to the frames within the recesses formed by the reinforcingstrips, and each spring is preferably composed of an integral wire bentto form an upper or free end 5 with two lateral legs 6. The lower endsof the legs are bent or curved, first inward in the plane of the legs toform the transverse leg-shanks 7 thence laterally to the plane of thelegs and outward to form the transverse spring shanks 8 which arelocated at an interval alongside of and substantially parallel with theleg-shanks, and preferably extend beyond the outer ends thereof; thencedownward and inward to form the trans verse base shanks 9, which arelocated at an interval below and substantially parallel with thespring-shanks and preferably extend inward to or beyond the inner endsthereof; and thence the free ends are bent or end of the clip to bear,by springing, against the metal plate of the frame when the clip issecured thereto.

The parts are so proportioned and arranged that, when the clips aresecured to the frames, the base-shanks 9 and the. springshanks 8 willnormally lie along the face of the metal plate, while the leg-shanks andthe lower ends of the legs will be normally lo cated in the plane of theface of the reinforcing strips, thus leaving a substantial intervalbetween the lower ends of the legs and the metal sheet, which forms asocket to receive a bunch of bills; it being understood that the yokedends of the clips are normally de flected backward to press against theface of the metal sheet or intervening bills; and it is evident that thecompound spring formed by the several shanks not only serves toresiliently resist the outward rotation of the yoked end of the clip,and thereby hold an inserted bunch of bills in place, but also permitsthe lower ends of the legs to be sprung outward to increase the intervalbetween these ends and the metal plate, thereby increasing the depth ofthe socket for receiving a thicker bunch of hills than could he receivedin the normal interval.

I claim:

1. A filing clip made of spring wire bent to form two lateral legs yokedtogether at the upper ends, and having the lower ends hent first inwardtoward each other to forin transverse leg-shanks in the plane of thelegs, thence outward alongside the leg shanks to form spring-shanks atan interval from the leg shanks and out of the plane of the legs, thenceinward alongside the springshanks to form transverse base-shanks at aninterval below the spring-shanks, leg shanks and spring shanks lying ina plane substantially parallel to that of the legs and thence to formsecurinp' shanks.

lupper ends, and having their lower ends bent inwardly toward each otherto form 'transverse leg shanks, thence outward to form spring shanks,thence inwardly along side of said spring shanks and said leg shanks toform transverse base shanks at an v l interval from sa1d spring shanksand thence laterally to form securlng shanks, the said leg shanks andspring shanks being arrz'lnged in a horizontal plane side by side andform mg a support on which slips may rest.

EMERSON B. ldOSELEY.

lVitnesses RUTH A. MILLER, RAY F. KoHL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington; D. G.

